I sure like Alton Brown. I don't watch his cooking show Good Eats as often as I might, because the wacky/zany stuff feels forced to me, and gets in the way of the information (which is excellent), but Mr Brown seems like someone whose company I would really enjoy. His website is entertaining, informative and well designed, and gives me the sense of a complex and curious mind. He even has a blog:

Georgia state school Superintendent Kathy Cox has decided that the word “evolution” is “…a buzzword that causes a lot of negative reaction” and should be replaced in all Georgia school curriculum with the phrase “biological changes over time”.

I agree. I hate buzzwords, don’t you? That’s why I think we should go one further and replace the phrase “slack-jawed backwater ignoramus” with the phrase “Kathy Cox”.

He also has lots of fans, and it's my guess that they skew cerebral as a demographic; you can even build your own Good Eats Geek Code. (Picture by Pelosi&Chambers stolen from Channel Guide Magazine.)